The Perspective Factor

While writing recently about the Metric System, I noticed something interesting. The Metric System recognizes seven independent entities that we measure. This means that they are not dependent on other entities for their definition. 

What I realized is that how many independent entities we measure depends on the perspective that our complexity gives us. The more complex we are, the more measurable independent entities we will perceive. Then I noticed that we also perceive seven "scales" in the universe and this is also due to the perspective given by our complexity, and the fact that we perceive the same number of each is not a coincidence.

SCALE

We have a certain scale that very much affects how we see the universe. Suppose that ants had the same intelligence and capabilities as we do, but we could not communicate with each other. We both studied the universe but could not share our findings with each other. But then one day we found a way to communicate with ants. While we would have both been looking at the same universe, each would have noticed things that the other didn't because of the difference in our scales.

Our very definition of things is dependent on our scale. In my cosmology theory everything in the universe, both space and matter, is composed of nearly infinitesimal negative and positive electric charges. The scale of these charges is what we refer to as Planck's Length, which is why it shows up in so many physics formula. Every scale results from compounding these electric charges.

What is the difference between an atom and a solar system? An atom, with electrons in orbitals around a nucleus, actually is a solar system. It is all a matter of scale. From any given perspective there are both scales getting larger and scales getting smaller. The most obvious breakdown of scales is as follows.

1) The scale of electric charges

2) The scale of subatomic particles 

3) The scale of atoms

4) Our scale

5) The scale of the Solar System

6) The scale of the galaxy

7) The scale of the entire universe 

If there was a being that could think, at any scale, it would see the universe in it's own way. If, for example, an electric charge could think it would see a subatomic particle like we see the earth and an atom like we see the Solar System. It would see the object of which the atom was a part, such as a rock, as the galaxy. 

Notice that our scale is right in the middle of the seven scales that we perceive. This is no coincidence. Also notice that the visible light part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see is right in the middle of the entire spectrum that we perceive. That is not a coincidence either.

COMPLEXITY

Another perspective factor is our complexity. We are of a certain complexity and that affects the way we see the universe. Since our level of complexity is higher than that of our inanimate surroundings we see these multiple scales. If we were of the same complexity as our inanimate surroundings we would see only one scale. If dogs and cats were concerned about such things, but had the same senses that we do, they would perceive fewer scales than we do.

We can see our complexity, relative to our inanimate surroundings, reflected in the number of different things that we measure. The Metric System recognizes seven basic entities that we measure that are completely independent of other entities.

1) Length

2) Mass 

3) Time

4) Electric current

5) Temperature

6) Moles, which is the amount of a substance as defined by the number of atoms

7) Luminosity, which is the brilliance of light or other electromagnetic radiation 

What I mean by "independent" entities is one that does not use another entity as it's definition. The unit of volume, the liter, or the unit of area, the hectare, as examples, are not independent entities because they rely on the unit of length for their definition. 

But how really independent are these seven "independent" entities? 

In my cosmology theory there are four dimensions of space over which the matter that we are familiar with is scattered but we can only see, and move at will, in three of them. The other is what we perceive as time. The fundamental particles of matter, such as electrons, are actually strings in four dimensions. We perceive them as particles because we can only see in three dimensions.

So what this means is that time is not really an independent entity. It is actually distance and we only perceive one spatial dimension as time because of our own nature.

Temperature is the energy in the movement of atoms or molecules within matter. We commonly refer to it as heat. But this energy is proportional to the average velocity of the moving atoms or molecules. Velocity is a function of time. Since time is not an independent entity, that must mean that temperature isn't either. We see it as independent only because of our complexity perspective.

Mass, moles (the amount of substance in number of molecules) and, electric current are all considered by the Metric System as independent entities. But mass is how we perceive the Mass-Energy Equivalence that is the energy holding like electric charges together, against their mutual repulsion, to form charged particles such as electrons. Moles are simply the number of atoms that this mass is contained in, and electric current is simply the number of electrons that are moving.

So none of these three are really independent entities. We perceive them as such only because of our complexity perspective.

In my cosmology theory, everything in the universe is composed of near-infinitesimal negative and positive electric charges. Empty space is a perfectly alternating checkerboard of negative and positive charges. Matter is like charges being held together, against their mutual repulsion, by energy, and this creates the Mass-Energy Equivalence as described above. Electromagnetic radiation is waves, which are energy, disturbing the checkerboard pattern of empty space. We perceive these waves as electromagnetic because they disturb the underlying balance of the charges in empty space.

So what this means is that luminosity is not really an independent entity because it is based on the amount of disturbance of the checkerboard pattern in empty space, in other words distance. 

This means that we measure seven independent entities only because of our perspective. If we were of a lower complexity than we are, we would measure fewer than seven independent entities and if we were of a higher complexity, we would measure more than seven.

Notice that the number of different scales that we perceive in the universe, seven, is the same as the number of apparently independent entities that we measure. This is not a coincidence, and it depends on our complexity level. We could classify living things by this measure of their complexity, and we are at a complexity level of seven.